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DECEMBER 2013
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Only By God’s Grace
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editorial
Reggie
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“The More Things Change . . .
The More They Stay the Same”
Having heard this pithy proverb countless times, I wondered
to whom it should be properly attributed. After a LONG five
minutes of research on the Internet, it seems that it was coined
by Jean Baptiste Alphonse Kerr sometime prior to 1855. Having
recently concluded my seventeenth year as Executive Director of
Mission Services, I can verify that things have changed dramatically over that period!
Few were using the Internet in 1996; those who did commonly gained access through the giants of AOL or CompuServe
using something called a 28K Baud dial up modem. Now we receive more junk email than we ever thought possible in the mail
box at the end of the drive. Advances come so quickly, the term
“cutting edge” is more often used in the name of a landscaping
company than in reference to technology. Pagers were popular
in 1997. Mention one today and the response would be a polite
but quizzical look! Things have changed a lot, and the rate of
change is accelerating.
However, Kerr was correct that some things, perhaps the
most important things, remain the same in the midst of the
whirling dervish of advancement. Allow me to mention just a
few for our thoughts and prayers as we close 2013.
1. We still need missionaries! As much as technology allows
us to share the message around the world instantly and repeatedly, the gospel message of God’s love is best communicated
through the lives of individuals. No one envisioned Skype, You
Tube, or the missions network years ago, but technology is no
replacement for the testimony through word and deed. Pray for
more missionaries.
2. We need missionaries to go to unreached people groups.
While Paul never used the specific term, he wrote this in Romans 15:20, “My ambition has always been to preach the Good
News where the name of Christ has never been heard.” Pray
daily for the unreached.
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3. We need more people to translate
the Bible. It is true that some who have no
Scripture in their native tongue may have a
Bible available in a “trade language” of their
region. However, it is so much more convincing and convicting when someone realizes,
“God speaks my language.” Pray for the work
of Scripture translation.
4. We need missionaries in areas that
were once considered Christian. Not many
years ago, people spoke of the dangers of
“post-modernism.” Friends, the greater
danger is that billions live in areas that are
“Post-Christian.” We must engage the people
of nations where the church exists but is considered irrelevant or worse. God has not cast
these people aside; they are still among the
cherished for whom Jesus died. Pray for missionaries to go to the post-Christian world.
5. We need a renewed focus in our churches on missions. I believe there is a grave danger lurking in the churches across the USA.
We have growing numbers of teens expressing interest in world missions and we have
great enthusiasm about missions at meetings
like the ICOM, but it seems the emphasis on
the world need is diminishing in some pulpits
and congregations. This is certainly not
universal, and I know of many who are more
passionate than ever. Pray for a revitalized
passion for the lost wherever they live.
That is just five! Amazingly, these could
have been mentioned as much in 1963 as in
2013. Perhaps it IS true, “the more things
change, the more they stay the same.” Let us
all pray for these priorities until Jesus comes.
You think about that!
Horizons
December 2013
No. 1191 • Vol. 62, No. 10
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contents
6 Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Only By God’s Grace
Yesterday: Faith . . . Our Yesterday’s were all about training preachers, teachers, leaders, and missionaries as C.Y. served as the President of Han Sung Bible
College. For 27 years we diligently gave our all, making every effort to prepare
young men and women in the field of ministry. We were a small part of South
Korea’s being a nation that sends out more missionaries than any other country
in the world.
Today: By God’s Grace . . . After 27 years of labor, hardships, and trials in South
Korea, God said, “Go.” We asked, “Where?” “Go to China, North Korea, and Vietnam.” This was in 1998 when we ended our ministries in South Korea to follow
the Lord’s command to go to all three Socialist countries!!!
Tomorrow: Hope . . . One of our last attempts to reach out to others are our efforts to reach the lepers of Cambodia and Laos. We are in the process of building
a colony for lepers that would have a church, school, medical clinic, and a farm
on thirty acres of land that has been given to us.
n articles
2 “The More Things Change . . .
The More They Stay the Same”
n spotlights
5 Coming Events
12 Prayer Needs & Praises
15 Thank You!
15 Gifts in Memory
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14 The Missions Network
May you have a
Merry Christmas and
a Blessed New Year!
-- Our Staff -Reggie Hundley, Executive Director
Cheryl Elliott, Graphic Design
Carol Hundley, Editorial Assistant
Georgia Sharpe, Bookkeeper/Treasurer
Bill Topley. Pressman
-- Our Board of Directors --
Matthew Broaddus
George Clark
Dean Davis
Charlie Delaney
Philip Eubanks
Larry Ferguson
Rick Keck
Stevan Mcclure
Adele McFarland
C. Wayne Murphy
Vinton Ritchey
Norman Weaver
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focus
Yesterday, Today,
Tomorrow
Only By God’s Grace
Patricia Kim, missionary
There are two days in every week that we should not worry about,
two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control.
All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday.
We cannot undo a single act we performed.
Nor can we erase a single word we’ve said -- yesterday is gone!
The other day we shouldn’t worry about is tomorrow,
with all it’s impossible adversaries, its burdens, its hopeful promises and poor performance.
Tomorrow is beyond our control.
Tomorrow’s sun will rise either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds -- but it will rise.
And until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is yet unborn.
This leaves only one day -- today.
Any person can fight the battles of just one day.
It is only when we add the burdens of yesterday and tomorrow that we break down.
It is not the experience of today that drives people mad -it is the remorse of bitterness for something which happened yesterday,
and the dread of what tomorrow may bring.
Let us, therefore, live one day at a time!
(Author Unknown)
The above story is true. BUT, our Yesterdays can bear on our Todays. Our Tomorrows will not be WITHOUT OUR TODAYS!!! We need to learn from the past
in order to live better and more fruitful lives Today . . . for our Lord!
The title to this story and its contents could go in several directions. But,
with prayerful consideration, C.Y. and I have decided to take you back to our
beginning.
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YESTERDAY . . . We met at
Johnson Bible College (presently
Johnson University.) My husband has
often said to me, “It seems like yesterday, honey” (that we were married),
and my words back to him were, “No,
sweetheart, it seems like 46 years!!!”
The manner in which my husband
asked me to marry him those long
years ago were these: “Will you go
C.Y. and Patricia and two toddlers, Peter
with me to my country (South Korea) Yung and Phillip Yung. We went to the
mission field when the boys were 1 month
and PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS
CHRIST?” At that point in my life, my and 15 months old.
greatest desire was to serve GOD in a most remarkable way. I was young and
full of love for my Lord and I had secretly been praying every night in chapel,
“. . . send me!” You see, I had been praying very diligently that God would send
me away to share the “good news” to those who had never heard. My answer
that day to Mr. Chan Yung Kim was: “Yes, I will go with you.” (There is so much
more to this story; but, for time’s sake, this is all I will share!)
Our Yesterday’s were all about training preachers, teachers, leaders,
missionaries as C.Y. served as the President of Han Sung Bible College.
For 27 years we diligently gave our all, making every effort to prepare
young men and women in the field of ministry. We were a small part
of South Korea’s being a nation that sends out more missionaries than
any other country in the world. I saw the tears in my husband’s eyes every
time a student, a missionary, or a pastor and their family would visit us. They
still come. Visitors from South Korea come to China to show their love and
appreciation for those years of service we
gave them. Most are pastors, teachers, or
missionaries who were under his leadership at the Seminary. To see the fruits of
his labors through God’s Divine Hand,
bring us tears of joy. But C.Y.’s start did not
happen on its own. It happened because
one missionary husband and wife took
him under their wing and nurtured
Frontier Missionaries, John and Jane
him, taught him, and had faith enough
Hill (who are now receiving their
to send him to America to be trained
reward in Heaven for their faithful
in Johnson Bible College.
service to the King of Kings.
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C.Y. and Patricia pictured with students at Korea Bible Seminary.
C.Y.’s intention from the very beginning of his journey to the United States was
to return to his country following his studies and “preach the gospel of Jesus
Christ.” I have to say that desire has never diminished.
Here I am writing a story about the past. The story of my individual missionary service was first and foremost to be the wife of C.Y. Kim and nurture our
four “homemade” children and later our five adopted children. My service was
to CHILDREN. My first question to the Lord when I landed in South Korea was
this: “Father, I know my first responsibility is to my family . . . but, I know that I
know . . . that YOU, Father God . . . have given me a ministry of my own!!! Show
me, Father. In Jesus’
Name.”
Soon after saying that
prayer, God opened
my eyes to the people
around me who needed
help. The time was 1970
and, for the next 27
years, I devoted myself
to the cries of children.
From that time on, I
assisted three orphanages that needed funds
in providing clothing,
Patricia in the early years of “fitting in” the culture and
food, medicine, and
worshipping with Korean sisters.
My Personal Yesterday . . . BY HIS LOVE!
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school supplies. Babies were left at our door step
and in our car -- often with notes . . . “I know you
can help my child.” I began “helping!” Children
needing surgeries were often not far from my
eyes.
I worked as hard for “The Baby Home” with
that same care, love, and diligence. It was a
measles epidemic that first took me to the Baby
Home. I walked into scabies-infested children.
They were covered with measles from head to
toe -- the epidemic so extreme that it took some
of the babies on
I found this newborn baby in
to heaven. I called
my rose bush outside our
for the U.S. Army’s
mission house. (Our 2-yearHospital Service to
old son, Peter, looks on.)
come and help me.
Many nights I found myself on my knees asking
for mercy and strength to do all I could to help
these babies through the power HE gave me. I am
grateful to God to have been privileged to love,
care, kiss, and send off a great number of these
babies to adoptive parents in the United States.
My interests also took me into medical missions
and to villages that were very poor. All of this
Holding onto an orphan
work was never far from me sharing who Jesus
child at my first visit to
was and inviting others to accept Him.
Eden Orphanage.
TODAY: By God’s Grace . . . After 27 years of labor, hardships, and
trials in South Korea, God said, “Go!” We asked, “Where?’ “Go to China, North
Korea, and Vietnam.” This was in 1998 when we ended our ministries in
South Korea to follow the Lord’s command to go to all three Socialist countries. Living and working in communist countries has been a tremendous
challenge to work, pray, and bear fruit! Freedoms were stripped from sharing the WORD outright. So, with God’s help, we found ways to serve HIM and
the people of North East Asia for the next 15 years -- and it is still on going! We have residences in both China and North Korea. In China we built a
School for Disabled Children in which we minister to 120 children. We also
have a Ranch for Hippo Therapy, a language school, a cow farm and a bread
factory. Presently we are building a Home for Orphans/Ole Folks Home.
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We are touching people’s lives
and loving them with Christ’s
Love in hope that they will
be led to the “love of God”
through us and these projects!
We are training evangelists
to be leaders, training young
people to be strong in their
faith, and sharing the gospel
with HIS wisdom as God leads.
The Special School in Hunchun City, China
Only God knew what HE was doing. Here He was taking a tried-and-tested, readyto-start-again servant couple to a land that no one really wanted to go and work.
Besides, how would it be possible? But, when Father GOD asks you . . . never
fear . . . the way will be opened. Truly it was a miracle that we walked through and
over the bridge from China into North Korea. We built from the ground up a ministry that is still on-going. In North Korea we have three medical clinics, an orphanage (where they said, “There are no orphans.”), a youth home, a cow farm, a bread
factory, a co-op with a soy milk factory., two kindergartens, and two day care centers. We said over and over, “Wow, God, Wow!” as we watched what happens
when you have faith in HIS direction and obey! It isn’t us, folks . . . it is God!
NORTH KOREA . . . A Miracle of God
“The Lord is my helper; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?” Psalm 118:6
Picture me, if you will . . . going across that bridge into North Korea, the first
American woman to be given a residence card in the city of Rajin. “You have now
become a citizen of Rajin.” Tears were streaming down my face as I held that little
booklet in my hand. I had been accepted! I worked hard for three years to show
these people that I loved them with HIS love. When rudely asked why I was there,
over and over I would confess:
“I am here to help you;
I am here to love you!”
Because of the call to North Korea, we became the first Christian Church /
Church of Christ Frontier Workers in that country. We still work and hope for the
future for that land. Having residence, C.Y. and I can freely travel back and forth
and do the work that God started through us!
With this opportunity to serve, we are able to feed 400 people with three meals
a day. We are providing their daily necessities with love.
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The Youth Home in Rajin City, North Korea
One of our last attempts to
reach out to others is with the
lepers of Cambodia and Laos.
We are in the process of building a colony for lepers that
would have a church, school,
medical clinic, and a farm on
thirty acres of land that has
been given to us.
Some of those who have leprosy
The door to Cambodia for the
Gospel is presently wide open. Please come and help us. Let us not wait until
those doors are closed by communism.
The work we have started is in the hands of younger adults whom we have
either trained or are training. We are in a transitional mode at the present
time. We have always intended for ANY work that we have started to leave
a legacy for the younger generation to follow and build upon -- even greater
than what we have done.
“Brothers (and sisters), I do
not consider myself yet to have
taken hold of it. But one thing
I do: Forgetting what is behind
and straining toward what is
ahead. I press on toward the
goal to win the prize for which
God has called me heavenward
in Christ Jesus.” Philippians
Missionaries Patricia and C.Y.Kim
3:13-14 (NIV)
TOMORROW: Hope . . .
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focus on
Prayer Needs & Praises
• Please pray for Kathy McCarty as she reports the following:
Africa
On November 21st a fire broke out in the
kitchen of Chidamoyo Hospital. The cause
is still unknown whether a lightning strike
or an electrical fault. Most of the kitchen
was destroyed as well as a laundry and
drug store room. Many agencies, churches,
and individuals have already come to their
assistance. Pray that the hospital will once
again be fully functioning soon.
• Be in prayer for David & Deloris Filbeck
(Thailand) who recently retired from 54
years of service in Southeast Asia.
Asia
• Billton Sohkhlet (India) gives praise for
the following:
-- A new waterwell in a village where
people had become ill from drinking contaminated water.
-- The Christian school receiving a state
science award and the students who will
travel to Delhi to present their exhibit.
-- Recent responses of many people coming to know the Lord through baptism.
• Please pray for Dick &
Sarah Robison, missionaries for the last 32
years in Portugal, who
retired recently. They
have now returned to
the US after 50 of missionary service.
Europe
• Please pray for Shannon Haynie (Ukraine)
and for the final editing
and audio recording
of the Crimean Tatar
Bible.
• Give praise that Shannon and a national
friend who were recently in a car accident
were not injured.
• Pray for Harvey &
Nancy Bacus (Jordan)
as they returned to Amman on December 12th
to resume work with
BOOKS & MORE library.
Middle East
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• Please pray for a quick recovery for
Carolyn Bump (Mexico) following
shoulder surgery on November 4th.
Medical
• Give praise for Barbara Stringer
(Colombia) recovering well following total right knee replacement
surgery.
• Pray for the family of David Sanders (Brazil) who passed away December 2nd in Brazil from cancer.
• Pray for the family of Deepak
Dhingra (India) who passed away
December 1st in India of a very
aggressive, unidentified lung infection.
• Pray for the Doug Lucas family
(Team Expansion) following the
death of his mother, Sally, in late
October.
• Be in prayer for Marcia Kay Thomson, 50-year veteran missionary to
Zimbabwe, who is battling cancer. Pray for strength as she goes
through treatments.
• Please pray for a quick recovery
for Saleem Massey (Pakistan) who
recently suffered a heart attack and
is recovering from triple by-pass
surgery.
• Join B & L (Southeast Asia) in
praying that hearts will remain
compassionate toward those
who do not know Him.
Team Expansion
• Ask that A & B might be able to
touch base with those working
in TD radio work in Southeast
Asia.
• Join K & R in Southeast Asia as
they lift up Beau, a believer who
was injured in a motorscooter
accident.
• Pray that MS in Southeast Asia
will be sensitive to God’s leading
about her future.
• Spencer & Patricia Garner (Mongolia) request prayer for the
Sunday School and for Magda
as she works to get it off the
ground.
• Join Mike & Jean Propp (Philippines) in praising God for no
loss of life among the Kingdom
Adventure staff following a 7.2
earthquake and devastating
typhoon.
• Join Chris & Samantha Sanford
in praying for church planting
efforts in southern Taiwan.
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